Rafiqul Gani

Rafiqul Gani at the 8th International Conference on Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Design (FOCAPD), July 13–17, 2014, Suncadia Resort, Cle Elum, Washington. Conference theme 'Innovation for Sustainability at the Interfaces of Process & Product Design'.

Professor Rafiqul Gani joined the Department of Chemical and Bio-chemical Engineering (DTU-Chemical Engineering), the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in 1986 as an Assistant Professor. In 2000, he was appointed a full Professor in Systems Design at the same department ^[1] and was the head of the research centre Computer-Aided Process-Product Engineering Centre (CAPEC).^[2] CAPEC has now been merged with another centre at DTU-Chemical Engineering due to their continued fruitful collaboration for over 4 years, PROCESS, to form a combine centre, CAPEC-PROCESS^[3] The new research centre consists of BSc/MSc students, over 32 PhD students, 4 Post Doctoral fellows and 7 faculty members.

Professor Gani has published more than 150 peer reviewed journal articles, 4 edited books and has made more than 200 conference presentations as invited plenary, keynote, oral and/or poster presenter. He has also given invited lectures/seminars at numerous companies and academic institutions and has organized several workshops on topics related to CAPE/PSE. He is the 14th Professor Roger W. H. Sargent Lecture on "Models, Modelling and Process Systems Engineering - What Next?", at CPSE, Imperial College, London (lecture given on 6 December 2007).^[1]

As of January 2014 Professor Gani holds the position of the President of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE). He has been a member of the EFCE Executive Board since 2005 and a member and past chairman (2001–2007) of the EFCE Working Party on CAPE. In 2010 he was awarded the prestigious Recent Innovative Contribution in CAPE Award of the Working Party.^[4] In 2014, Professor Gani was granted the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Politehnica University of Bucharest.^[5][6]

Education

Professor Gani graduated with his BSc in Chemical Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, in 1975. During the period of 1976-1980, he studied at Imperial College in London, where he obtained his MSc, DIC and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering. His PhD thesis was entitled "Crude oil characterization and distillation dynamics", which was carried out under the supervision of Professor Roger W. H. Sargent.^[1]

After completing his studies, Professor Gani then spent the period 1980-1985 at PLAPIQUI in Argentina as a senior researcher and during 1985-1986 as a visiting researcher at DTU-Chemical Engineering at DTU .^[1]

Research Interests

Professor Gani’s principal research area is in the area of process systems engineering and his interests are as follows:

• The use of approaches for solving problems in process and product synthesis, design and analysis
• The development of methods and tools for solving problems from the petrochemical, chemical, specialty chemical, agrochemical, food and pharmaceutical industries.^[1]

His research topics include the following:^[1]

• Modelling (chemical processes and their operations, chemical products and their behaviour/properties)
• Process synthesis, design and intensification
• Process integration
• Synthesis, design and analysis of chemical products and their processes (CAMD and CAFD)
• Sustainable process-product design
• Tools integration

Current positions

Professor Gani currently holds the following positions:^[1]

• President of EFCE^[4]
• Editor-in-Chief of Computers and Chemical Engineering Journal
• Series Editor for Computer Aided Chemical Engineering book series of Elsevier Science B. V.
• Member of the Executive Board of the EFCE
• Fellow of AIChE
• Fellow of IChemE
• Member (and past chairman) of EURECHA (European Committee for Use of Computers in Chemical Engineering Education)
• Member (and past Chairman) of the PSE Executive Committee

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